We had the immense pleasure of chatting with Marcos Kueh, a Malaysian Designer and Visual Artist currently based in The Hague. In this short but meaty session, we talked about Marcos’s education background, his experience of transitioning into different disciplines and how he tries to bring his cultural background into his current exploration of works. Marcos also shared with us his experience of bringing his unique version of story telling to a Western audience and the reception that it received. Midnight Mass would like to thanks Marcos for his time in engaging with a friendly chat with Jowin and Sam.

A brief bio of Marcos Kueh:

Marcos Kueh graduated with his Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2022. His practice is about safeguarding contemporary legends onto textiles as tools for storytelling, just as the ancestors of Borneo did with their dreams and stories, before the arrival of written alphabets from the West. Currently his artistic research is focused on evoking the presence of colonial narratives in our present-day lives and conjuring new myths to what it means to be an independent country.

In 2022, he was awarded the Ron Mandos Young Blood prize for emerging artists, and his work was acquired by Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His work has been included in exhibitions around the world, including When Things Are Beings at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); This Far and Further at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2022); Common Threads at The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur (2017); and Unknown Asia,Osaka, Japan (2017). He currently lives and works in The Hague. 

All photos courtesy of Marcos.

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